Give/Set focus

[d.healey]

We have loseFocus but is there a way to set a control as having focus? For example I have an editable label and a button to clear the label, it would be nice to give focus to the label when the clear button is clicked.

[ulrik]

@d-healey I agree, it would be handy!

[DanH]

@d-healey how does losefocus work? I’m always trying to control the transport in a daw while my plugin is open and end up controlling the plugin instead

[d.healey]

@DanH

how does losefocus work?

I don't know, I've had no use for it yet :)

[ustk]

@d-healey trying to implement the functions but I'm stuck trying to get the component;

void ScriptingApi::Content::ScriptLabel::showEditor()
{
	if (auto l = dynamic_cast<ScriptLabel*>(get()how?????))
	{
		l->showEditor();
	}
)

void ScriptingApi::Content::ScriptLabel::hideEditor(bool discardContent)
{
	if (auto l = dynamic_cast<ScriptLabel*>(get()how?????))
	{
		l-> hideEditor(discardContent);
	}
)

Should I dynamic_cast at least? @Christoph-Hart

[d.healey]

@ustk

Depending on where you're putting this code it might be:

ScriptingApi::Content::ScriptLabel* thisObject = GET_OBJECT(Content::ScriptLabel)

or

MultilineLabel *l = dynamic_cast<MultilineLabel*>(component.get());

or

ScriptingApi::Content::ScriptLabel *sl = dynamic_cast<ScriptingApi::Content::ScriptLabel*>(getScriptComponent());

or

Something else...

[ustk]

@d-healey I tried 1, 3, and many of the 4... Trying 2 ;)
also trying (this)

[ustk]

@d-healey Also I'm not sure the hideEditor will work, because clicking outside the label might be caught before anyway...

EDIT: if we really need a discardContent bool, maybe it is possible to add it in the properties then...

[Matt_SF]

It would be nice to have this. Giving focus to a user-input label when clicking on a button for example, as David suggested.

@Christoph-Hart would that be possible to implement please ? :)